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TOF!N BY BIG BULLDOGBOY OF ELEVEN YEARS MAY DIE OF INJURIES.Little Eugene Berkhan Terribly Lacerated by Vlci=ous Dog in East Point.STICKS AND HAMMERS AREtSED BY WORKMEN TO SAVE LAD’S LIFE.Four Men Required to Rescue Child, and Ei .:ht to Take Life of Dog.lowed on the streets, especially unmuzzled. It was not right in this thickly populated .town to have hog pens, and they were removed. Now if our City Council will get right in behind the dogs, they will likewise be kept at home. Don’t wait until there is an example that will shock our whole community. Many sections throught the State have suffered seriously from dogs. Don’t let our little city have a pall ever it from the same cause.LitUe Eugene Berkham, aged 11 years son of Mrs. Charles 1. Heath, of 187 South Forsyth street, lies at bis home his life hanging by a thread, as a resu j of wounds inflicted by a vicious b 11 dog in East Point yesterday afternoon.The dc r was the property of Fred eiemmen • foreman in one of the departments of the Blouot Buggy Co., and it took four men to make the dog turn the little fellow loose, and five shots to kill the dog.The forgoing was dipt from the Atlanta Constitution of July 29th.When the Jacksonian begun its flght for the ei .'orcement of the ordinance against vicious animals running atlarge in Jackson, the Editor had inmind the little children of the town whose livis were in jeopardy by reason of Miyor Wall’s bull-dog which had alrea ty terrified the immediateneighborhood in which the dog waskept. Tie life of a single child is worth 10,000,000 times more than all the bulldogs in the world, the Mayorsincluded in the bunch.Tae Mayor should take notice ofthe willingness of the East Point citizen to allow HIS dog killed, where as our citizens will notice that the Mayor wanted to kill the man whowould da' e molest his dog.To this end, we must infer that the Mayor ar ned himself with a pistol to carry ut his threat of homicide, ^ because aoout this time, two of Butts good and truthful citizens saw the mayor walking along the streets of Jackson rod a big revolver fell from j his pocket and he quietly picked it up, put io in his pocket, and continued on his journey just as thoughthere was no law against carrying a pistol concealed. A beautiful spectacle is it to behold the Mayor of a quiet and peacable little town like Jackson v alking the streets armed like a cow-boy of the wild and uninhabited western frontier.We note with pleasure that The Jackson Argus joins ns in the fight against dogs running at large, on the streets of Jackson, and- clip the following from their last issue towit: “Little Gibbs Lyons, while going on the streets last Saturday, was bitten by a dsg, the teeth entering the fiesh a quarter of an inch deep. The dog showed no symptona of rabies, butJtfr. Lyont took the little fellow to Atlanta lunday and was assured there wa? no danger unless the dog died. This brings up the subject of peeping dogs off the streets. If there is no ord ian-e against dogs being at large, th re should be, and it should be rigidltr enforced. If dogs and lit. tie ehiidcun were weighed in balencs, which wo lid outweigh? The life ofany little child is precious, 'and they |Stand little chance wheye dogs are al- J* 0 .
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Jackson Jacksonian
Jackson, Georgia, US
Fri, Jul 05, 1907
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